The Post Invents Independents' Concerns to Advance Its Budget AgendaComments for The Post Invents Independents' Concerns to Advance Its Budget Agenda at http://www.cepr.net , comment 1 to 2 out of 2 commentshttp://www.cepr.net
Tue, 03 Mar 2015 18:14:24 +0100FeedCreator 1.7.3The Crisis in Government and Coverage of Governmenthttp://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-post-invents-independents-concerns-to-advance-its-budget-agenda#comment-6896
This comment, together with the comments below and above, highlight the crisis both in the federal government and in media coverage of the federal government.
The real problem is that the federal government has become a tool of corporate interests.
Members of Congress and the President fight for election in increasingly and obscenely expensive media campaigns. The media reaps a bounty in political ad revenue. The voters are frustrated with the pay-to-play system but they fail to focus their frustrations on the source of their misery. Articles such as the three you criticize intentionally deflect reader scrutiny away from the system that causes their dissatisfaction with government action on jobs, the financial system and healthcare that directly affects their lives.
The truth is that the salaries of journalists are directly tied to their refusal to report on, and perhaps even to ask themselves, the inability of the federal government to enact meaningful legislation affecting corporate interests without inviting lobbyists for those same corporations to participate in drafting the legislation. - Ron AlleyMon, 14 Feb 2011 02:14:49 +0100If they persist in their stubborn refusal to fall in line....http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/the-post-invents-independents-concerns-to-advance-its-budget-agenda#comment-6892
Then the poll questions must be rephrased until results prove that independent's wishes are in agreement with the views expressed by the WaPo. - dieselSun, 13 Feb 2011 17:50:59 +0100